The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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NEWS OF THE STATE
LYNCHERS NOT INDICTED.
HASKELL CASE TO NE-OFEN.
Make* A
Ada Jury Adjour .a and
Report.
Ada. Okla. Complaining of what
they termed “tardy Justice of the
courts.” "lack of speedy trlala in cap-
ital eases.” and the indifference of the
general public of Pootoloc county, th*-
a pedal grand Jury drawn to Investi-
gate lit*' Iviuhing of four men at Ada
April IS*, adjourned Tliuraday after-
noon, after a aeaalon of two daya and
a half, and reported that they had
returned no indlctmenta. The Jury’a
report In part aa follow a:
“We, the undcralitned membera of
the Brand Jury, empaneled and aworn
and charged by your honor to Inveatl-
gate the lynching alleged to have or-,
i-urred in the city of Ada. Pontotoc
county, atate of Oklahoma, on or about
the 19th day of April . A. D. 1S»01»,
hereby aubmlt our final report.
"We have examined every person
that we could ham was at or near
the scene of the trouble at the time
of commission, except three, and we
had process of these three and have
been informed that one was out of the
county, one out of the state and the
other we excused from appearing
before us on account of alckneaa. In
anmmonlng witnesses to come before
ns, we have had to rely solely upon
the Information furnished us by the
guards at the Jail, one or two county
offlt era and what little personal
knowledge we had of persons who
were in a position to have seen the
people who were supposed to have
done the lynching.
"We have had practically no as-
sistance from the main body of < it>
ecus of the county and no person
ether than the ones above named has
offered us any suggest ions as to who
knew anything of the alleged viola
tions of the law. or where we could
obtain any knowledge.
“We find from our Ivnestlgatlon
that the parties who took the four
men from the Jail were masked and
that their identity w*s unknown to
th * persona who were t*efore ua, and
that there were from thirty to fort'
men in the crowd. We have not had
before us sufficient evidence to indict
any of them, nor even enough to es
rahllsh their identity.’
New Cra* d Jury is Called ta Msst
at Tulsa, May 10th.
Tulsa. Okla. The federal grand
Jury was called Thursday afternoon
to meet on Monday, May 10. to inves-
tigate the Muakogee town lot fraud
cases lu w hich the names of Governor
C. N. Haskell and half a dozen other
prominent Oklahomans were recently
involved. Judge Italph Campbell of
the Culled Stales circuit court here
Thursday afternoon granted the order
for the new Jury, which will consist
of sixteen men.
When the indictutenta against these
men were quashed ou April 10, last,
it waa on the ground that the indict-
ments were faulty in that they were
returned hv the grand Jury comiwsed
of twenty-three men under the fed-
eral law. instead of by a Jury of six
teen as provided In the Arkansas law,
which was held to be in force in old
Indian Territory by federal enactment
at the time the alleged frauds were
committed.
Governor Charles N. Haskell and
six other prominent Oklahomans were
indicted .in Muskogee in January last
charged with alleged conspiracy to
defraud the federal government and
the Creek Indian nation in connection
with the scheduling of Muskogee town
lots in 1902.
All the seven indicted men were
wealthy. Besides Governor Haskell
there were Clarence W. Turner, Wal-
ler K. Eaton, William T. Hntchtnga.
F. It. 8evers, A. Z. English and Tames
Hill.
Nsw Vsefc Commercial Orgiaiullw*
Opposed to Tariff Bil|.
Now York, Apr. 30—More than a
icort of commercial organisations
lere, headed by the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers, have taken
up actively the campaign for tbs
establishment at ones by the national
government of a permanent tariff com-
mission composed of expert*, by whom
all proposed changes In the tariff law
■ball be carefully and sclentllieally
considered. Under present conditions.
It Is pointed out that there Is an Im-
mense loss to the commercial Inter-
ests of the country every time the
tariff law Is chauged ou account of
the uncertainty which prevails dur-
ing the long period when the sched-
ules are being considered in congress.
The organlxstlons backing thin
movement are convinced that the Ald-
rlch-Fayne bill, as now constructed, la
a failure, and they recommend a re-
turn to the Dtngley achedules pending
the appointment of the proposed board
of expert*.
According to a statement Issued last
ulght, “several delegations from
commercial bodies are now in W ash-
ington to advocate the continuation of
the old law until a competent com
mission can lift the entire schedule
out of the muddle.”
DOLLAR WHEAT HAS
COME TO STAY
IN LEM THAN FIVE VEANE CEN
TEAL CANADA WILL EE CALLED
UPON TO EUPPLV THE
UNITED ETATEE.
Storm Mini Cantrahama
Centnhoma. Okla —One person was
fatally Injured. 15 others sustained
broken limbs and bruises. 12 houses
were almost totally “ recked and ev-
ery building In the town more or less
damaged by a storm or rain, hall and
wind, in which a twister was inter-
woven. that passed over the vicinity
of Centrahoma shortly after noon on
Monday. The rain came In torrents
resembling a cloud burst and the
streets of the town were ffllcd with
water an.l debris from the wrecked
houses, outhouses, fences and other
movable objects.
Farmer Shot Through the Heart.
Asher. Okla. Shot through the heart
with a Winchester ball. Stanley Ware,
a farmer residing one mile east of
Asher, was instantly killed Thursday
evening while participating in a pitch-
ed battle near the home of Stanley
Ware lu which Perry Brewer and his
son Jesse and two brothers of Ware
participated. The battly was the re-
sult of an old feud.
New Oil"weTTat Henryetta
Henryetta. Okla.—One of the strong-
est oil wells in this part of the state
has been brought in by Smith and
Swanahout. five miles east of town.
Work was at once stopped and the
well capped and the enterprising drill
ers began to work night ami day to
get leases. Despite efforts to keep
their find a secret, it gradually leaked
out and oil men from all parts ot the
country have been scouring the vicin-
ity in search of oil leases.
New Oil Fislds Attracting Attention
Ardmore. Okla.—The large oil and
asphalt deposits of the Wheeler an*l
Ubuckle Held a uear this city are at-
tracting mining and oil men from all
parts of the south and two oil supply
houses have advised the commercial
club that they will establish branch
houses here.
Rars Mineral Found in State.
Guthrie. Okla.—Molybdeum. a valu-
able and rare mineral has been dis-
covered near Avard according to the
Avard Tribune. The vein is nearly
lour fe**t thick and crops out of the
side of bluffs for nearly a half mile.
The ore as it Is dug from the earth,
is worth about 160 a ton. I apital is
becoming interested In the find and if
the vein is as rich as described work
of developing the find will begin soon.
Molybdeum is similar to graphite
and was supposed to be the same until
a German chemist demonstrated the
difference. It is used in the manu-
facture of paint and Is worth $1.60 a
pound Only a few mines of this min-
eral have been discovered in the
world.
Russian's Debt is ES.vuO.COO.OCO.
St. Petersburg. Russia— Count Wit-
te, speaking on the budget at A
meeting of the council of the empire
Wednesday, said the Jewish disability
caused a powerful body of Jewish
financiers abroad to boycott Russian
securities, while Russian* recent
alienation of German financiers nas
led to a further contraction in the
market dealing in ihtso securities.
The Russian debt had risen to $5,900,-
000,000, an increase of $1,450,000,00(1
In live years.
For a Nsw Kansas Railroad.
Topeka, Kansas. — The Kansas
Northwestern Railroad company filed
a statement with the board of railroad
commissioners Wednesday to obtain a
certificate which will permit the com-
pany to issue bonds and capital Btock
to build Its lines. The company pro-
poses to build from Wichita. Kan., to
Benkelraan. Neb., and will issue
$6,300,000 in capital and the same
amount in bonds. The company says
that Its capital and bonded debt will
not exceed $42,000 per mile.
Thu Captain a Suicide.
San Francisco. Ca»—News of the
suicide of Capt. J. F. Robinson of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Indiana, which
was wrecked recently at the entrance
to Magdalena Bay, reached here
Thursday by means of wireless mes-
sage from one of the vessels now at
Magdalena. The deed was committed
on Monday night in the cabin of the
Indiana, now pounding to pieces on
the rock* where she stranded.
A couple of years ago, when the an-
nouncement waa mads in these col-
umns that "dollar wheat" bad come to
■tay, and that the time waa not far
distant when the central provinces of
Canada—Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta—would be called upon to sup-
ply n large part of the wheat con-
sumption In the United States, there
were many who laughed at the predic-
tions and ridiculed the idea of wheat
reaching the dollar point and staying
there. Both of these predictions have
come to pass. Dollar wheat is here—
and it la not only here, but la here to
atay; and at the same time, whatever
unpleasant sensations it may arouse
la the super-senaitlve American, Cen-
tral Canada ia already being called
upon to help keep up the bread sup-
ply, and within the next five years
will, aa James J. Hill says, literally
“become the bread-basket of our in-
creasing millions.”
There are few men in the United
8tatea better acquainted with the
wheat situation than Mr. Hill, and
there are few men, if any, who are in- 1
dined to be more conservative in
their expressed views. Yet it was this
world's railroad men
•levators are sprlaging up; railroads
are sending out their branch lines in
ail directions; thousands of prosper
ous farmers are leaving their prairie
■belters for now and modem homes
“built by wbont:" everywhere is a
growing happiness and contentment -
happiness and contentment built by
wheat—the “dollar wheat.” which has
come to stay. Notwithstanding this,
the Canadian Government Is still giv
lag awny Its homesteads and selling
pre-emptions at $3.00 aa acre, and tb.
Railway and Land Companies are dm
posing of their lands nt what may be
considered nominal figures.
A Frank Opinion.
Onoo n youth thought it hie solemn
duty to loara something about Henry
'antes. Bo. to the greet admiration
of bla frivolous friends, he picked up
“The Wings of the Dove" and disap-
peared Into Its pages.
Two weeks Inter he waa thinner, but
etlU at It. when one of the afore men-
tioned frivolous friends came Into the
room, and, for tho Erst time showed
interest.
“Say.” he observed, “le The Wings
of the Dove' n collection of short
stories or one long story T”
The delver Into James glanced up
from the pages.
“One darned long story,” he replied,
throwing bis whole soul into the
words. _________
Net Unnatural Question.
Two neighbors were recently bat-
tling over the club links. All went
fairly well, although bogey remained
practically Intact, until they reached a
tee overlooking a pond.
Each drove furiously, then cautious-
greatest of the-------------— , ^ ^
who said a few days ago that “the ly. a half doaen balls Into the muddy
price of wheat will never be substan- depths of that pool.
tially lower than It la today"—and
when It le taken into consideration
that at that time wheat had soared to
$1.20, well above the dollar mark, the
statement is peculiarly significant,
and doubly significant is the fact that
in this country the population ia in-
creased at the ratio of 65 per cent.,
while the yield of wheat and other
products ia increasing at the rate of
only 25 per cent. For several years
past the cost of living has been stead-
ily increasing in the United States,
and this wide difference in production
and consumption is the reason.
This difference must be supplied by
the vast and fertile grain regions of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
There Is now absolutely no doubt of
this. Even the press of the country
concedes the fact. Results have shown
that no other country in the world can
ever hope to equal those provinces as
wheat producers, and that no other
country can produce as hard or as
good wheat. Said a great grain man
recently, “If United States wheat main-
tains the dollar mark, Canada wheat
will be well above a dollar a bushel,
for In every way It is superior to our
home-grown grain.
Standing near by waa a Uttle girl,
■tupid but curloua. After the twelfth
ball had plunged to rise no more, she
queried, blankly, hut sincerely, of the
golfer:
“Mister, what la tho fun In this
game?”____
The Way It Aph*nI to Her.
When she was five years old her
aunty took her to ceurch; It was her
first experience.
When she got home her mother
asked her how she liked the service.
“Oh, well, God was there in a
white nightgown, and he didn’t speak
loud enough * for the people to hear
what he said; so they kept saving
over and over: “We bee witch thee to
let ua hear thee, good Lord.' 1 didn't
like it very much.”—Judge’s Li-
Sheer white goods, In fact, any fin*
wash goods when new, owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau-
ty. Home laundering would be equal-
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
With these facts steadily impinging strength to stiffen, without thickening
their truth upon our rapidly growing the goods. Try Defiance Starch an
population, it is interesting to note You will be pleasantly surprised at the
Just what possibilities as a “wheat improved appearance of your work,
grower” our Northern neighbor pos
County Attorney Suspended
Shawnee. Okla —Judge Caruthers in
district court Tuesday, issued an or-
der suspending County Attorney Virgil
R. Riggers from office pending his
trial upon the indictments returned
sgsinst him by the grand jury here,
(he order being effective May 1. The
order of tho court waa unoppoa d by
Riggers.
D. C. Holt, a staunch prohibitionist
end former deputy county attorney,
w ns recommended for appointment aa
county attorney.
Would Own a Special Train.
Washington. D. C— If a bill in-
troduced Monday by Representative
Dwight of New York, becomes a law.
the United States will own a complete
railway train consisting of a baggage
rar. a sleeping car and a private car
.or the exclusive use of the president
of the United States. The sum of
$60,000 to be expended by the secre-
tary of war is provided.
aesaea. While the United States will
never surrender her prestige in any
manufacturing or commercial line, she
must very soon acknowledge, and with
aa much grace as she can, that she is
bound to be beaten as a grain pro-
ducer. It must be conceded that a
great deal of the actual truth about
Omissions of History.
Romulus, having built Rome, was
constructing a wall around It.
"What's the use of putting a wall
on the north side?” Jeered Remus.
"Evanston will never try to break In.”
Then ensued the first boxing contest
in the new city, with the result, as all
great aeai ui uie actual truiu auuui —---—- —------ ------ —
the richness of Canada's grain produc- f^e world knows, that Remus was par-
ing area has been “kept out .of sight,” manently knocked out.
State Loses Half Million
Guthrie. Okla. The state school
land board Friday passed a resolution
applying the rentals on school leases
for IW8 as a basis of rental for 1909
In spite of the law of the recent leg
islature fixing the basis at four per
cent of the 1908 appraisement.
The total 1908 appraisement was
$30,000,000, and by the application of
the new rule, the state stands to lose
ntK)Ut $600,000. the difference between
the * mounts represented by the
board's figures and of the original ap-
praisement
State Auditor Trapp and Secretary
of State Cross were authorized to
eoufer with the governor to draft rules
for the correction of the 1908 appraisal
to which the lessees object so stren
uously. The action may be test«d in
court on an agreed statenieut of facts.
Tulsa Country Club
Tulsa. Okla.- The most complete
country club in the eastern part or the
state will be at Tulsa when the many
tinpiovementa now contemplated and
Ou course of construction are complet
Ask Higher Rates at Tulsa
Tulsa. Okla.—The Pioneer Tele-
phone Company has asked the city
commission to see what can be done
to secure an Increased telephone rate.
The rompany alleges that its lines arc
in need of many repairs and extensive
improvements and extensions, but say
that the present Income of the system
will not pay the present expenses to
sav nothing of the work contemplated.
The company wants the residence
rate increased from $1.50 to $2.00 per
month, and the business rate from $ -
to $3 per month, if this raise is made
effective the company will erect a four
story building, place all wires under
ground in the business district and in-
stall a new $75,000 switch board.
The matter probably will be left to
a vote of the people.
Heaviest Snow in Two Years.
Texhotna. Okla.—Watered and nour-
ished by a three inch snow which fell
n few days ago. the crops of this sec-
tion are coming up in good shnpe. This
was the heaviest snow that has fallen
here sines April 20. 1967. and waa
ouite unexpected.
Gotch Defeats Roller.
Kansas City, Mo.—In the clean-
est and fastest, the cleverest and the
most scientific wrestling match ever
staged on the Convention hall mat
Frank Gotch. champion grappler of
them all. gradually wore out and final-
ly conquered the toughest opponent
he has faced in many months. Dr.
Benjamin Franklyn Roller, the mus-
cular physician from Seattle.
Fairbanks Buys Pasarcna Home.
Pasadena, California.—Charles W.
Fairbanks, former vice-president of the
United States, concluded, through
agents Thursday, a deal for the pur
chase of a $30,000 residence in one of
the fashionable districts of Pasadena
It ia said he will make this his future
home.
aa Mr. Hill says, by the strenuous ef-
forts of our newspapers and maga-
zines to stem the exodus of our best
American farmers into those regions.
It is a fact that up to the present
time, although Canada has already
achieved the front rank in the world's
grain producers, the fertile prairies
of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al-
Rough on Rats, unbeatable exterminator
Rough on Hen Lice, Nest Powder. 25c.
Rough on Bedbugs, Powder or Liq'd. 25c.
Rough on Fleas, Powder or Liquid. 25.
Rough on.Roaches, Pow’d, 15c..Liq’d.25c.
Rough on Moth and Ants Powder, 25c.
Rough on Skeeters, agreeable to.use,25c.
berta have as yet scarcely been Wells, Chemist, Jersey C y, - •
scratched. Millions of acres, free for
the taking, still await our American The Natural Proceeding,
farmers; and when these millions are Editor—I say, this story s too eng
gone there are other millions in re- »t»ut U»at fallow’s hanging himself,
gions not yet opened up to inunigra- Reporter—What shall 1 do about
tlon. A few years ago the writer, who Editor—Cut him down,
has been through those wheat prov- A . __ rE
luces several times, laughed with oth- ,, v**r CROS® BAL? . grocer
. , ... . , Should be in every home. Ask >our gri^ei
ers of our people at the broad |or it 2 package only 5 cenu.
statement that Canada was bound to
become “John Bull’s Bread Basket." j
Now, after a. last trip (and though he
A man’s religion never diet so long
as he uses the golden rule In measur-
ing his actions.
Religious Liberals Adjourned.
Philadelphia, Pa. — The National
Federation of Religious Liberals, at
its closing session Friday night declar-
ed for equal suffrage. Indorsed child
tabor laws and express hope for
Universal peace through treaties o!
amity among the nations.
Colobratad First Inauguration.
Alexandria. Virginia. — President
Taft attended Friday In this city a
celebration of the 120th anniversary
of the first Inaugurstlon of George
Washington and the laying of a cor-
ner stone in dedication of a park to
the memory of the first president.
Triple Lynching In Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas.—A mob lynch-
ed three negroes early Friday at
Marshall, Tex. The negroes had killed
a deputy sheriff.
_____Cig*r has a rich
taste. Your dealer or Lews’ Factory,
Is a stanch American) he frankly be-
lieves that not only will Canada be-
come John Bull's bread-basket, but it i Lewis’ Smgis Binder
will within the next decade at least taste. Yo
BECOME THE BREAD-BASKET OF i Peor“* m_
THE UNITED 8 TATES. Perhaps this! The average life of a
may be a hard truth for Aemricans to ten to tweWe years.
■wallow, but It is a truth, nevertho- !
less. And It is at least a partial com- . ‘
pensation to know that hundreds of j
thousands of our farmers are profit-
ing by the fact by becoming producers
in this new country.
The papers of this country have nat-
urally made the most of the brief pe-
riod of depression which swept over
Canada, but now there is not a sign of
it left from Winnipeg to the coast.
Never have the three great wheat rais- |
ing provinces been more prosperous. \
Capital is coming Into the country l
from all quarters, taking the form of ;
cash for investment, iodustr'al con- 1
cerns seeking locations, and. best of 1
all, substantial and sturdy immigrants >
come to help populate the prairiea.
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